WWE NXT
April 8, 2015
Santa Clara, California (Wrestlemania AXXESS)
Commentators: Rich Brennan, Corey Graves
Recap by: Jason Namako of Wrestleview.com
We open with video looking at Wrestlemania AXXESS.
We then see video on how Neville, Hideo Itami, Finn Balor and Tyler Breeze won their First Round Matches in the Wrestlemania 31 Battle Royal Qualifying Tournament. Neville def. Kalisto with Red Arrow, Balor def. Baron Corbin with a Crucifix, Breeze def. Bull Dempsey with the Beauty Shot and Itami def. Jason Jordan with the Flying Kick.
Hideo Itami def. Neville in a Semi-Final Match to advance to the Finals by pinfall with the Flying Kick.
Finn Balor def. Tyler Breeze in a Semi-Final Match to advance to the Finals by pinfall with the Coup de Grace.
Vignette on Dana Brooke, looking at her experience at Wrestlemania AXXESS. Brooke debuts on NXT next week.
Video package on the big NXT live event in San Jose, California during Wrestlemania 31 weekend in front of 5,000 fans.
Next week, Sami Zayn faces Rhino on NXT TV.
Main Event in the Finals of the Wrestlemania 31 Battle Royal Qualifying Tournament: Hideo Itami def. Finn Balor to win the tournament and earn a spot in the Wrestlemania 31 Battle Royal by pinfall with the Flying Kick.
Afterwards, Itami & Balor shake hands and embrace as Itami then celebrates his win.
To close this week’s NXT, we see a mini-documentary following Hideo Itami around during Wrestlemania 31 weekend.
The video highlights his WWE contract signing with Hulk Hogan in Japan, his NXT debut along with the name change, winning the Wrestlemania 31 Battle Royal Qualifying Tournament and celebrating with WWE Hall of Famer, Japanese legend Tatsumi Fujinami, hitting his original finisher, the Go 2 Sleep, to defeat Tyler Breeze at the NXT live event in San Jose and finally competing in the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal during the pre-show of Wrestlemania 31 where he eliminated Bo Dallas, but then was eliminated by the Big Show.
The video has tons of backstage footage and comments from Hulk Hogan, Triple H, John Cena, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, Stephanie McMahon, Daniel Bryan, Mark Henry and the Big Show, putting over Itami and how he will be a future star in WWE.